Blindness in Victorian Britain

This talk traces how blind and visually-impaired people in the
Victorian era became increasingly vocal in seeking control and
ownership over the social and political issues that directly
affected them, and introduces some of the era's most prominent
and influential blind campaigners.


Heather Tilley is a British Academy postdoctoral research fellow
at Birkbeck, University of London. She has recently curated an
exhibition at Birkbeck on the history of assistive reading
technologies for blind people and a display of prominent blind
and visually-impaired people for the National Portrait Gallery's
collection.